Lots of missiles the last couple of days. Kyiv Region Military Administration says they shot down 10 missiles this morning.
Graham writes an article at The Atlantic about ISIS-K and the massacre at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, titled “Conspiracy Theories About the Moscow Attack Are Unnecessary. The fault lines in Russian society have foretold yesterday’s atrocity for literally centuries.”
The essay reminds me of an observation by practicing philosopher Vladimir Pastukhov, who writes:
A thought inaccessible to the Kremlin ideologues who are obsessed with their own uniqueness. For the East, Russia is a defector from the West. And the attitude toward it is exactly as it usually is toward defectors - contemptuous and condescending, and certainly not as their own. It is in Moscow that Putin can tell the ears of Russians how he is fighting the collective West. But for Kabul, he himself is part of that West, and a weak one at that, and because of that, the most disgusting. Not just a desirable target, but a more accessible one. And for Beijing, by the way, it works the same way. This is no longer a tactical, but a strategic miscalculation at the level of misreading its own cultural code.
In other news, the Hercul superglue appears to be holding my Hoka Gavriota girlie sneakers together. I’ve also used the adhesive to beef up the bottoms of the Bondis and affix new studs to a pair of Solomon Speedcross shoes I bought before covid.
And, finally, this on Speaker Mike, who is again taking a break.
Some hardliners have already made noises about ousting Johnson, if he moved a stalled $95 billion Senate bill to aid Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies.
Johnson has refused to allow a floor vote on the bill, but has promised to address Ukraine aid when lawmakers return from a two-week vacation in April.